Progress indicator gets a new name

2:45 PM,
Feb. 19, 2013

John Gaddis

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John Gaddis

As children mature, parents typically increase the responsibilities of their children in order to progressively prepare them for the world they will face as college students or as working professionals. Education reform follows the same mindset, evolving with increasingly higher expectations and rigor as our world becomes more complex and competitive.

In 2002, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reformed to include new federal accountability-mandates known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The goal of NCLB was that every student would be proficient, as measured by an ...